It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.